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May 31, 2018 (newstodate): The prospect of seeing neighboring country's airBaltic putting up to 50 or even 80 CS300 aircraft in the Baltic air over the coming few years is not frightening the Estonian carrier Nordica.
-The news from airBaltic has not overly upset us, says Sven Kukemelk, Nordica COO.
-As we see it, airBaltic is basically leaving the regional market which is our home turf by building up their fleet of CS300 that is basically a narrow-body aircraft comparable to the Airbus A319 or Boeing 737-700.
-We are serving the market with smaller turboprop and regional jet aircraft to provide regional air services with a a strict eye on the yields and profitability of the individual routes.
-In our view, airBaltic is rather to fight against low-cost carriers such as Ryanair, easyJet and Wizz Air which is certainly not our strategy.
-We stick to our strategy of profitability and look positively into the future where we will continue to expand our fleet from today's 18 aircraft, and I would also be very surprised if we don't open up a new base with own aircraft outside Estonia in 2019, says Mr Kukemelk.
From March 2018, Nordica has opened a new base at Groningen Airport Eelde with year-round flights on five routes to Copenhagen, Munich, Nice and Brussels throughout the year and to Ibiza during the summer season.
Nordica's aircraft fleet now comprises six ATR 72-600, two Bombardier CRJ700 and 10 Bombardier CRJ900.
-The news from airBaltic has not overly upset us, says Sven Kukemelk, Nordica COO.
-As we see it, airBaltic is basically leaving the regional market which is our home turf by building up their fleet of CS300 that is basically a narrow-body aircraft comparable to the Airbus A319 or Boeing 737-700.
-We are serving the market with smaller turboprop and regional jet aircraft to provide regional air services with a a strict eye on the yields and profitability of the individual routes.
-In our view, airBaltic is rather to fight against low-cost carriers such as Ryanair, easyJet and Wizz Air which is certainly not our strategy.
-We stick to our strategy of profitability and look positively into the future where we will continue to expand our fleet from today's 18 aircraft, and I would also be very surprised if we don't open up a new base with own aircraft outside Estonia in 2019, says Mr Kukemelk.
From March 2018, Nordica has opened a new base at Groningen Airport Eelde with year-round flights on five routes to Copenhagen, Munich, Nice and Brussels throughout the year and to Ibiza during the summer season.
Nordica's aircraft fleet now comprises six ATR 72-600, two Bombardier CRJ700 and 10 Bombardier CRJ900.